Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday signed a decree prolonging the alert levels BRAVO and CHARLIE-CRP until May 15, the Government Security Centre (RCB) has announced.

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said Poland knows that if it was attacked that both countries would "stand together."

46 entities received funding for activities aimed at counteracting and solving the problem of homelessness for the amount of PLN 5.5 million. This year's edition of the program is called "Overcoming homelessness. Homeless people assistance program” and consists of supporting entities in adaptation, inspiration, and promotion of innovative activities in this area.

Poland’s prime minister has described Germany’s strategy based on Russian-German reciprocity as “bankrupt,” adding that Poland is trying to convince its western neighbour to end its dependence on Russian energy.

Poland and the Czech Republic will jointly apply to the European Union for additional funds to cover the costs of hosting Ukrainian refugees, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, said after a meeting with his Czech counterpart, Petr Fiala.

Two Polish F-16 fighter jets will patrol the skies over Slovakia as part of the cooperation between the two countries' air forces, Mariusz Blaszczak, the defence minister, said after a meeting with his Slovak counterpart Jaroslav Nad in Bratislava on Friday.

The foreign ministers of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia met on Friday in the Latvian capital Riga to discuss increasing NATO forces in the region in connection with changes in the security situation after Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Prices of consumer goods and services (Consumer Price Index, CPI) increased by 12.3 per cent year on year and by 2.0 per cent month on month in April 2022, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported in a flash estimate on Friday.

The International Dance Day is celebrated nationally on April 29th. It is a festival for all dance lovers established in 1982 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI) under the aegis UNESCO. It occurs every anniversary of the French dancer and choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre's birthday. He was a creator of contemporary ballet. On this day, numerous festivals, events, and dance education events are organized around the world.

In two weeks' time the government will end the state of an epidemic that was introduced on March 20, 2020, after the first coronavirus cases were confirmed in Poland, the health minister has told PAP (Polish Press Agency).

Żaryn exposes Russian propaganda. “Russia's intelligence chief is spreading insinuations against PL and the U.S., convincing falsely that both countries are preparing ‘a Polish annexation of western Ukraine,” Stanislav Żaryn, Specjalnych, the Spokesperson of the Minister-Special Services Coordinator, wrote on Twitter about the propaganda theses of Sergey Naryshkin, the Chief of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

Jan-Krzysztof Duda won 2.5:0.5 against Canadian Eric Hansen in the seventh round of the Oslo Esports Cup (prize pool $216,000), which is part of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The Pole with a performance of 14 points was the winner of the event.

On Saturday, April 30th, the International Jazz Day – Polish-Ukrainian Day under Giewont (Zakopane). Many attractions are planned: concerts by Fiś Banda, Schocolad and Leszek Szczerba; an architectural exhibition and a picnic with Ukrainian food. Simultaneously there will be fundraising for Ukrainian refugees.

March of the Living to mark Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day, will take place this year on April 28th at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. After a two-year hiatus during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the march has started today at the historic “Arbeit macht frei” gate and the participants headed for the former concentration and extermination camp Birkenau.

Poland's Interior Ministry has sent a motion to the Prime Minister's Office requesting an order for state-owned companies to take over gas installations belonging to Novatek Green Energy, a Russian firm that has cut supplies in some parts of Poland.

Poland has become a true European leader when it comes to confronting Putin, the defence editor of Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper has claimed.

An autonomous ship, powered by electricity collecting waste from water. The project was created at the Gdańsk University of Technology together with partners from Taiwan. The project name is Zero Emission Waste Collecting Vessel to Use in Ports and Close-to-Shore Areas called ZeroWastePorts

Around 66 per cent of Poles have become involved in helping Ukraine since its invasion by Russia, a survey shows.